In the time it took her to carefully walk across to him, Domeki had a good chance to take in just how...interestingly Shannon was currently dressed. The fact that the dress seemed a few sizes too small did register but his tired mind was too caught up in the colorful swirls of the pattern to take much notice of any show caused by her movements. He was just beginning to think that he could discern vague characters in the sworls of the animal print when he became distracted by the fact that Shannon had drawn him into a hug but, rather than showing any displeasure to this, he allowed his arms to raise to support Shannon as she stood.
"I'm sorry. I honestly didn't mean to worry you," he answered quietly. His tone was touched with slight regret at having made her to worry for so long but he didn't think that he honestly could have written anything coherent in his journal the night before - and he hadn't even thought to try. "I didn't even think of checking my journal last night and all I could think of, this morning, was finding a shower."
Domeki managed a wan smile in response to the punch to his shoulder but even this faded when Shannon admitted that she had worried that he had been taken for one of the experiments. He credited the fact that he actually considered not telling her how close to the truth she was to his current sleep deprived state but he knew better than to lie about something which might be important.
"You're right," Domeki finally admitted with a quiet sigh. He closed his eyes and lifted a hand to rub lightly at the bridge of his noise - but he continued to speak, all the same. "I was taken for one of the experiments sometime the night before last - but I'm not injured so there isn't any reason to worry." That much was true - he was uninjured, aside from being more tired than he had ever been in his life. There was also the pounding headache and the dull feeling of long-faded adrenaline but those things were ultimately unimportant. "If anyone has been asking after her, Tinker Bell was with me but I don't know where she went after we were released."
Feeling a change of subject was in order, Domeki made a show of checking out her new dress. "All of that doesn't explain the change in your fashion taste, though."